The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb – WW2 Documentary Special
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Atomic bomb, World War II
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud member of the National Party when I was in Parliament between 2002 and early 2007, and of course when I was Leader of that Party between late 2003…
DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics
That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood Which country will become the first to rat on its net zero target, to find some of putting it off, watering it down – or changing the definition of what counts? There must be a lot of money on it being Germany. Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach […]
Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment
Fiscal Theory of the Price Level – Lecture by John H. Cochrane
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Falkenhayn Crosses The Carpathians – The Battle of Sibiu I THE GREAT WAR…
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Want to make a small fortune in the offshore wind industry? Then start with a large one. In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the numbers are far worse out at sea. Take a machine […]
Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs
Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
This morning, I will testify in the first hearing of the impeachment inquiry of President Joseph Biden. The hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will start at 10am in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. My written testimony is below.
Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing
0.7 per cent of GDP
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
National’s “fiscal plan” came out this afternoon. To no one’s great surprise I guess, we didn’t learn much from it. The big National numbers had been in the Back Pocket Boost package a few weeks ago, combined with the statement from Willis last week that National would get back to an OBEGAL surplus no sooner […]
0.7 per cent of GDP
More on the canceled anthropology panel on sex: an anthropology society defends deplatforming the panel as transphobic
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Yesterday I wrote a post about how two anthropological societies decided to cancel a panel on the biology of sex and gender because they considered it “harmful” to the listeners. As I wrote: I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the…
More on the canceled anthropology panel on sex: an anthropology society defends deplatforming the panel as transphobic
CHRIS TROTTER: Losing the Left
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Chris Trotter writes – IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when “a credible left-wing party” is defined as: a class-oriented, mass-based, democratically-structured political organisation; dedicated to promoting ideas sharply critical of laissez-faire capitalism; and committed to advancing democratic, egalitarian and emancipatory ideals across the whole […]
CHRIS TROTTER: Losing the Left
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Prosperity via subsidies, making the energy that powers economies more scarce and/or more expensive, always sounded like a fantasy. – – – When she took to the floor to give her State of the Union speech on 13 September, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen largely stood by the script, says Phys.org. Describing her […]
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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